Abstract

Since the early nineties efforts have been made to transform the Russian high altitude aircraft M-55 Geophysika into a flying laboratory suited for stratospheric research aimed at environmental issues such as ozone depletion, the assessment of the influence of commercial airtraffic on the atmosphere and other topics concerned with upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric physics and chemistry. As a result of these efforts the Airborne Polar Experiment (APE) is presently being planned and prepared (Stefanutti et. al., 1995). The first field campaign with Geophysika is scheduled to take place in the 1996/97 winter season from an airport in northern Sweden or Finland and a southern hemispheric experiment is projected for mid 1997 or mid 1998.

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